Orrin Hatch gets it.
Hatch is part of a faith that has actually experienced the forcible expulsion from American society in recent history. He seems to understand the dangerous overtones of the current debate.
How’s your geek eyesight?
Take it easy, Sweet Lou. It’s been a fun ride.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out by Dan Mangan
originally by The Smiths
Lady Gaga’s Poker Face Read By Christopher Walken
Honestly, this makes coming home from vacation a whole lot easier. OH!
The pessimist in me is a little choked up at watching the last episode of “At the Movies.” The optimist notes that Roger Ebert is easily one of the best and most prolific writers of our time and he’s still going strong.
(via technipol)
He’s right. The opposition from the right has been intense. Despite that, we have a solid (but not perfect) healthcare bill. We have an excellent financial reform bill. We have regulatory agencies who are back on the job. We have an economy that is slowly turning around. (While the economic turn-around is slow, it’s more sustainable than some of the previous booms financed by consumer debt.) We avoided a truly catastrophic collapse. The domestic auto industry is saved—and we’re starting to produce electric cars. The Iraq war is ending. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is being ushered out the door.
There’s a lot left to do—but even with the Republicans dragging their feet on everything, we’ve come a long way in the past 18 months. But many on the left seem to be totally out of touch with the big picture. As crazy as they are, the Tea Partiers get it. They understand how much ground the right has lost. They’ve dug in their heels and done everything to stop any sort of change.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are angry because they got a pony for their birthday. They wanted a unicorn!
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